Mixer for hydrocarbon-engines.



No. 742,774. PATENTED 007. 27, 1903. I c. c. CHAMBERLAIN.

MIXER FOR HYDROGARBON ENGINES.

APPLICATION FILBD'SEPT. 22, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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A TTORNE K No. 742,774. Patented October 27, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GHAUNOEY O. OHAMBERLAIN, OF IONIA, MICHIGAN.

MIXER FOR HYDROCARBON-ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,774, dated October 2'7, 1903. Application filed September 22,1902. Serial No. 124,313. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern: peculiar construction and consists of a single Be it known that I, OHAUNCEY O. CHAM- piece of casting having two chambers formed BERLAIN, a citizen of the United States, retherein, B being the air-chamber, and O the 55 siding at Ionia, in the county of Ionia and vaporizing-chamber, wherein the hydrocar- 5 State of Michigan, have invented certain new bon vapors are produced. Said chambers B and useful Improvements in Mixers for Hyand O are separated by means of the partidrocarbon-Engines; and I do hereby declare tion H, which extends upward therein about the following to be a full, clear, and exact detwo-thirds its greatest diameter. It is in- 60 scription of the invention, such as will enable closed at the top by means of a wall I, which [0 others skilled in the art to which it apperis semicircular in form, and is of the same tains to make and use the same. inner and outer diameter as the walls of the The objects of this invention are to provide chambers B and C, with which it is horian extremely simple and reliable device for zontally connected. D is an opening between 65 thoroughly vaporizing and mixing gasolene said chambers B and 0, formed by means of or other volatile hydrocarbons with air for the wall I and partition H. induction into the explosion or igniting chamb is an opening in the lower end of the airber of the working cylinder, one which is chamber B, at which portion suitable air-inadapted to the saturation of air with gasolene let-pipe connection K is made with the inte- 70 under a slow circulation, as in starting the rior of the base G of the engine, (shown in engine, one in which the air is not obstructed Figs. 1 and 2,) the purpose of which is to exin its passage to the igniting-chamber of the clude dust or foreign substances which might engine, nor the stream of gasolene or other otherwise be drawn into the engine, and it is volatile hydrocarbons turned abruptly from of somewhat larger diameter than said cham- 75 its natural course, thereby making it easy to ber B.

mix and vaporize the required amount as c is an opening in the vaporizing-chamber needed, which amount is obtained without 0 midway its upper and lower ends, and it changing the feed throughout a wide range has a circular flange h, in which suitable outof engine speed, also one which is adapted to let connection L is made to the igniting-cham- 8o prevent the gasolene or hydrocarbon being ber E of the engine, its inner diameter being drawn back into the vaporizing-chamber of somewhat larger than the inner diameter of the mixer. I attain these objects by means the vaporizing-chamber O, on which it is of the device herein described, and illustrated formed. by the accompanying drawings, in which- At the upper end of the vaporizing-chamber 85 Figure 1 is a side view and part section of C is a suitable reservoir J, having a needle- 3 5 my improved mixer for hydrocarbon-engines valve 4", indicator 3, and hydrocarbon-supply attached to the end of an igniting-chamber of connection 15. Said reservoir J is secured to an ordinary hydrocarbon-engine. Fig. 2 is a the vaporizing-chamber C by means of the perpendicular longitudinal section of the boss 15, which is inserted within an openingt' at 0 same, the other parts or connections being the upper end of the vaporizing-chamber C.

40 shown in elevation. It is taken on the line At the lower end of the vaporizing-chamm a; of Fig. 1 and 1 y of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a ber G the size is reduced,being partly conical detached perpendicular longitudinal section, in form, as shown more particularly in Figs. taken at a right angle to Fig. 2 and through 1, 3, and 4. It has a pipe 70 and a funnel Z in 95 the center of same, the other parts or connecits end, which are secured to said vaporizing tions also being shown in elevation. Fig. 4 chamber 0, as at 'v and m. The purpose of is a detached horizontal section of the same, the funnell is to prevent the gasolene or other taken through the line a z of Fig. 3. volatile hydrocarbon fluids from being drawn Referring to the drawings, A indicates my up into the igniting-chamberEof the engine. 1C0 improved mixer for hydrocarbon-engines as Referring to Figs. 3 and 4, it will be noticed attached to the end of a hydrocarbon-engine that the partition H extends considerably having an igniting-chamber E, working cylabove the outlet 0 of the vaporizing-chamber inder F, with its base or support G. It is of C, the purpose of which is to cause the air in chamber B in its passage to the vaporizingchamber 0, as indicated by the arrows, to rise above the outlet 0 in said vaporizing-chamber O, and thus cause the air to act in unison with the gasolene or other volatile fluid in its downward flow, it being not forced abruptly from its natural course, thereby causing a more complete vaporization within the vaporizing-chamber 0.

Referring to Fig. 2,f indicates a supplypipe which connects reservoir J with hydrocarbon-pump, (not shown,) it being considered unnecessary to showit, as it constitutes no part of my invention.

. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a mixer for hydrocarbon-engines, the combination with a working cylinder and an igniting-chamber, of two chambers, one an air-chamber and the other a vaporizing-chamber, chamber, and a vapor-outlet midway the perpendicular length of said vaporizing-chaman air-inlet at the lower end of the airher, the two chambers being connected by a lateral passage at their upper ends, and a hydrocarbon-supply connection in the upper portion of said vaporizing-chamberand a suitable hydrocarbon-s11 pply reservoir having an indicator, needle-valve and supply connection, an opening at its lower end with hydrocarbon-return pipe secured therein, a funnel within the lower portion of the vaporizingchamber, and an induction-tube having an opening extending to the lower end of said funnel, substantially as described.

2. In a mixer for hydrocarbon-engines, the

combination with a working cylinder E, and an igniting-chamber F, of two chambers, one an air-chamber B, and the other a vaporizingchamber 0, an air-inlet b, at the lower end of the air-chamber B, and a vapor-outlet midway the perpendicular length of said vaporizing-chamber O,the two chambers being connected by a lateral passage D, at their upper ends, and a hydrocarbon-supply connection 1), in the upper portion of said vaporizingchamber 0, and a suitable ply reservoir J, having a suitable indicator .8, needle-valve r, and supply connection and opening m, in its lower end having a hydrocarbon-return pipe k, connected thereto, with suitable hydrocarbon-supply pipef, and overflow-pipe e, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHAUNOEY O. CHAMBERLAIN.

Witnesses:

F. A. SLIVEN, M. M. MOGEARY.

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